FUSER (Game)

FUSER is a rhythm game developed by Harmonix Music Systems and published by NCSoft. The game was released on November 10th, 2020 for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, and Xbox One.

A free demo was released for the game on January 27th, 2021.

Gameplay
FUSER centers around combining tracks of different songs to create mixes. The game's UI takes the form of a DJ booth with four record players, with a list of Songs, Instruments, and Effects that the player has selected at the top of the screen. The player can place tracks taken from this list onto the record players, which will add them to the mix currently playing. The player can also create short loops of their own with the in-game Instruments, and apply Effects, essentially audio filters, to any disc to change its sound.

The game's concept is comparable to DropMix, a card game previously developed by Harmonix and published by Hasbro, as both games have a premise of combining different parts of songs to create mashups. FUSER contains several references to DropMix, including several songs previously created for DropMix also being featured in FUSER.

Soundtrack
See List of Songs.

Reception
FUSER received generally positive reception from critics, though the PC version in particular received "mixed or average reviews" according to review aggregator Metacritic. Reviewers praised the game's focus on music creation, though many said that the game was overpriced for the content offered. It currently has "Very Positive" reviews on Steam.